Honey Cake - Hardcover

Stuchner, Joan Betty

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1896580378 ISBN 13: 9781896580371

Publisher: Tradewind Books, 2007

Synopsis

Rare Book

About this title

About the Author:

Joan Betty Stuchner has performed as a storyteller live and on television, and acted in community theater. She teaches part-time at a Jewish school and works in the library at the University of British Columbia. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Cynthia Nugent is an award-winning children’s book author-illustrator. To research Honey Cake, she traveled to Copenhagen. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

From Booklist:

In this Holocaust rescue story where the camps remain a distant but scary threat, a young Jewish boy in Copenhagen tells of the Nazi invasion of Denmark, the widespread resistance among ordinary citizens, and how, after three years of occupation, the Danes help many Jews escape the roundups. Ten-year-old David knows that the grown-ups around him have secrets and that his sister is part of the resistance. Then David himself becomes involved; he’s drawn into tricking the soldiers and delivering an important message that helps the resistance derail a German supply train. Black-and-white illustrations throughout break up the text of this chapter book, which can serve as an introduction to the grim history. Older children may want to go on to Ellen Levine’s Darkness over Denmark (2000), as well as accounts about people who did not escape. The afterword focuses on the Danish government’s rescue efforts. Grades 3-5. --Hazel Rochman

About this edition

• Publisher: Tradewind Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1896580378
• ISBN 13: 9781896580371
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1